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Culture Beat Feb. 6, 2017

With the all the protesting and rioting across the country since Donald Trumps election, some in the mainstream media have suggested that this is evidence of a leftist grassroots political movement akin to a progressive tea party. While there is little question these protests and riots attract a lot of media attention, is what Americans see occurring an organized grassroots cohesive movement? Not likely.

There is a profound and fundamental difference between the Tea Party movement and the current leftist resistance temper tantrum. The Tea Party was truly a grassroots movement born out of serious concerns over the ballooning national debt, government spending and the need to lower taxes the very ideas of Liberty that lit the fires of the American Revolution. It was mixture of traditional socially minded conservatives and libertarians both concerned over the perceived loss of individual liberty and the growing creep of socialism. It was the passage of ObamaCare that saw the Tea Party come into its own as a truly potent political force that helped lead to the Republican majorities in both the House and Senate with the goal of being reformers, not revolutionaries.

Those on the Left or more accurately far-left currently protesting and rioting arent interested in connecting with traditional American values, though they like to throw around terms like un-American. They see traditional American values as simply codes for racism, bigotry and sexism. To this leftist grievance class everything is about equality or the lack thereof an inequity of outcome, not opportunity. In reality, what the Left is after is a neo-Marxism. When they talk of a grassroots movement, they are speaking of the rise of a new proletariat. They seek a complete re-ordering of society around their leftist concepts of social justice equality. In reality, these protesters are hoping to birth a revolution, not a reformation.

Individual freedom versus collectivism; American history has shown time and again that Americans prefer individual liberty over and against collectivist tyranny. It seems to us there is no comparison between these movements, only contrast.

The rest is here:
The Left's Tea Party? - Patriot Post